Chart for multiple intelligences activities

INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES

• Story telling and narrations.

• Write stories.
Linguistic • Create a newspaper.
• Create a TV or radio newscast.
• Play vocabulary games.
• Have debate.
• Create a classroom podcast.
• Solving mysteries using deductive reasoning.
• Predicting outcomes based on circumstances.
• Solving number or logic puzzles.
• Doing financial planning for an imaginary business.
Logical • Use toys and images for sequencing games where kids have to show the right order.
• Hide prizes, school supplies, or assignments in puzzle boxes.
• Write secret messages in computer code.
• Escape room or escape room kit such as Breakout EDU.
• Art activities such painting and play dough.
• Working with play money.
• Map reading and map making
Spatial • Play a Pictionary-Style game
• Diagram sentences
 • Pack specific items into a suitcase or box so they fit exactly
• Keep a bullet journal
• Use mind maps instead of traditional note-taking.
• Write and recite poetry.
• Perform and dance routines to act out historical or literary events.
• Create songs or raps about match concepts.
• Perform sound and vibrations experiments in science.
• Read picture books to the tune of music from different genres.
Musical • Make up song memory devices for different subjects.
• Write test or worksheet answers on the beat of a metronome.
• Practice spelling words with a classroom orchestra where each kid makes a different sound with their body while reciting
a spelling word.
• Dramatic re-enactments of historical or literary events.
• Using different body parts to measure objects.
• Use charades to act out parts of speech.
• Learn folk dances that represent different cultures.
• Design and build an architectural model out of materials like Popsicle sticks or toothpicks.
Kinesthetic • Use Lego bricks for math lessons such as the different sized bricks for fractions.
• Tell a story or practice vocabulary words with yoga poses attached to each word.
• Make up finger plays to study for tests.
• Work in small group on a project.
• Mentoring or teaching concept to another student
• Conducting interviews
Interpersonal • Role-playing historical or literary situations.
• Team-building exercises
• Cooperative or team video games
 • Board or card games that involve creating alliances
• Mock political campaigns and elections.

• Keep a journal.
• Write an autobiography.
• Work independently.
• Write essays about which historical or literary figures they would want to be.
Intrapersonal • Rewrite a story from their point of view.
• Share how they’d be different if they were from another culture.
• Multi-player role-play games such as Dungeons and Dragons where each kind is their own character.
• Meditation sessions for brainstorming or studying.
• Categorize species in the natural world.
• Collect items from nature
• Go on nature walks
Naturalist • Orienteering
• Math story problems featuring plants or animals
• Classroom pets
• Plant and maintain a community garden
• Host a community nature clean-up event